jQuery UI tabs. How to select a tab based on its id not based on index

Question

I have two tabs and configured usign jQuery UI.

ul  class="tabs"
  li  tabone
  li tabtwo
ul

dynamically from C# code behind I will hide or select some tab let say tabtwo and the other tab has to be hidden or not shown. I can do this in JavaScript using .tabs({selected:1}); and .tabs(disable:0). but I don't want to use the tab indexes to do so.

Is there any alternate to select tabs based on their name/id?

Answer 1

Accepted answer didn't work for me either, however I found solution in a similar thread: Switch to selected tab by name in Jquery-UI Tabs

var index = $('#tabs a[href="#simple-tab-2"]').parent().index();
$('#tabs').tabs('select', index);

With jQuery UI >= 1.9:

var index = $('#tabs a[href="#simple-tab-2"]').parent().index();
$("#tabs").tabs("option", "active", index);